Private Cloud Computing Infrastructure and Services
It is true that IT shops will continue to grapple with assimilating legacy applications and systems within their virtual computing infrastructures. However, I got a sneak preview of the 2012 IT Spending Intentions data from the ESG Research team, which indicates that IT organizations will focus future hardware purchases ...
I love this data, which comes from ESG’s 2012 IT spending intentions survey (we’ve been doing this for years, so we have some excellent tracking data). This survey covers North America, Western Europe, and the Asia Pacific region.
In 2009, people were 3X more likely to cancel an IT project, ...
Companies are desperate for knowledge when it comes to cloud. Executives want it and IT frankly is struggling with the best way to go about it or whether it even makes sense to adopt it. On the consumer side, I find myself moving more and more to the cloud. Music, ...
Anyone with an IT career is always keeping a watchful eye on the hottest technology and looking for ways to enroll in training and advance their career. I did this successfully years ago with Microsoft certification and have witnessed many IT professionals build a stable career by growing their knowledge ...
In general, markets hype themselves well above their ability to extract actual money. Cloud is no exception, but as it matures, realities begin to take shape.
Petfood.com or Furniture.com didn’t fail because the Internet didn’t work. They failed because they had stupid business models. There are plenty of ...
While watching the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade today, I was reflecting on all the things I am thankful for this year. While I am of course most thankful for my family, my friends, and all my co-workers, there are a few things from an IT perspective that I am thankful ...
My colleague Jon Oltsik recently posted a blog about the merits of OpenFlow as a new generation of software-driven networking. I won’t repeat the details here, since but it’s always good to get a first-hand look at a commercial implementation of the protocol.
That’s where the ESG Lab validation of NEC’s ...
The east coast of United States took another beating over the weekend, with record-breaking October snowfall which caused widespread power outages. Sometimes it takes “disasters” like this to instigate action for companies without an IT continuity plan. In what would seem like a perfectly timed announcement, Axcient, a backup/recovery (and ...
"The easier users can access and share data while IT effectively manages and secures it in the background, the more productive businesses can be," said Enterprise Strategy Group Senior Analyst Mark Bowker.
via Cloud Networking Demand Fuels Citrix Revenue Growth - NewsFactor Network.
“Cloud-based DR moves the discussion from data center space and hardware to one about cloud capacity planning,” noted Lauren Whitehouse, senior analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) in Milford, Massachusetts.
via Advantages of Disaster Recovery as a Service - Data Center Knowledge.
